Sentences with phrase «old fear of»

The age - old fear of starvation is built in to our psyches, and for the non-thinking reactionaries (most of us) that fear never subsides for long.

Fear of Consequences - One big reason that many of these couples sited for upholding their marriage vows when they felt very tempted to do otherwise was plain old fear of sinning and the consequences that would follow.

The former is the age old fear of \ immigrants \ (not that all Sikh's are immigrants) changing \ our \ society.

Still, that old fear of municipal water has given bottled water companies an edge in the market place, playing off that fear even to the point of untruth.

But did you know that they love it so much that they will go to the great lengths of producing personal submarines, developing mining skills and even overcoming a centuries old fear of water to get to the white stuff?

(1 Corinthians 7:8 - 9) There is also the old fear of witches and warlocks and their ungodly potions which God condemns in Gal.

Such conversions were, however, always suspect among Christians throughout Europe, and when Lopez became implicated in an alleged Spanish plot to poison the Queen in 1594, old fears of Jewish duplicity and cruelty were seemingly confirmed.

Decades - old fears of networked robots running out of control may become more salient as next - generation robots are linked to the Web, but at the same time they will become more familiar as people employ domestic robots to do household chores.

It is true that old fears of a new ice age did not originate with climate scientists [edit — no nonsense please] and I confess to being someone who worried about such things at that time.

Not exact matches

When it came to marketing, we often saw brands capitalizing on older adult's fear of life threatening situations, including a fall, loss of memory or motor skills, or other health related issues like a stroke or heart attack.

The fear of automation is centuries old, but as economics professor David Autor explains, it doesn't eliminate jobs, it changes them

The concern was that fear of a backlash might make a Romney administration generally critical of the industry and big PE deals, so that his old connections to the industry didn't become a liability.

«Fear is the oldest, deepest and least subtle part of our emotional life, and so therefore it's boring.

To play «backseat DJ,» you first need to connect your Spotify account with your Uber profile; when you request a ride, a music bar will appear at the bottom of the Uber app and you can select a playlist from your Spotify account while you wait for your car to show (although this only works if you get a music - enabled car, a detail that's apparently stressing out Uber drivers with older vehicles who fear they'll be penalized for not offering the service).

Someone older with a lot of life experiences will naturally have fear — it's natural.

I am worried we will get the same old story with a London - centric approach to Brexit where the government protects the City of London above other industries and that's our fear.

Standing in the way of Rive's vision are utilities that fear that the technology is putting pressure on their century - old business model of big centralized energy generation.

All of Breitbart's ideas are as old as time — the xenophobia, the fear, the protectionism — it's all very old and requires little explanation.

Fear of failure often has deep roots in our early lives, so getting tough with yourself and giving yourself a lecture is about as effective as yelling at a teary two year old.

If you were like me, then you lived in constant fear of being roughhoused or teased by your older siblings.

This 64 - year - old lives a Spartan life, and despite $ 1 million in financial assets, fears running out of money

Since I'm a 23 - year - old entrepreneur, I saw this post as another sign that I have the green light to take risks and build businesses because the fear of living out on the streets with no food is overblown.

The recently - ended fourth round of NAFTA has stoked major fears the 23 - year - old trade deal could end with a U.S. withdrawal because American negotiators tabled potentially deal - killing proposals on dairy, autos and other issues that Ottawa views as non-starters.

Heinz is an institution in Pittsburgh — the Steelers play at Heinz Field, locals of means like to get married at Heinz Memorial Chapel — and Buffett's presence allayed fears that the 144 - year - old company would be dismantled.

Those fears were reinforced late in the day when Gary Gensler, an old lion of financial services regulation, confirmed for the crowd that in his view, bitcoin's two largest rivals may fit the description of securities in U.S. law.

The current U.S. economic cycle has been unusually long, sparking market fears that it is ready to die of old age.

In the old days, there was fear and dislike of Chinese workers (by workers and unions but perhaps not by employers) because they worked too hard for too little.

The extent of the initial plunge raised new fears that some investors who tend to track past price movements of stock indexes would conclude that the nine - year - old bull market has run its course, making the recovery later in the day somewhat important from that perspective.

Don't you see that children, 4, 5, 6 year olds can come to the same basic belief as you have, and they do not arrive there by using reasoning abilities, but are usually lead there out of fear or love, two very powerful emotions?

Old Testament Prophecy: «And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him — the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.»

Growing beyond our old level of awareness requires letting go of our lower vibrational «stuff»... our limiting beliefs, our fears, and our physical - emotional toxins.

Crhis, to pick up on HJ's suggestion, I guess it is too much to expect that «Chris» is short for «Christine» and that you are a shapely 30 year - old redhead with DD breasts, a hyperactie $ ex drive, a fear of emotional commitment and a few hours to spare, hey?

While the Old Testament stories are driven by fear and a desire for self - preservation (even the call to seek the welfare of Babylon was ultimately selfinterested), Jesus said that he came «not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many» (Mark 10:45).

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

In the New Left's opposition to the media, old bourgeois fears such as the fear of «the masses» seem to be reappearing along with equally old bourgeois longings for pre-industrial times dressed up in progressive clothing.

As logical as it seems to stay away from teachings that cause such debilitating fear (so much so that the thirteen - year - old me created escape plans for the inevitable AntiChrist Army that would march down our street to shoot me after the rest of my family had successfully been raptured), it would be even less logical to believe that God would create a group of strange people created to be forever distanced from Jesus because we can't know Him in the right way.

I know that might seem a silly question in light of what I just said, but old beliefs and fears die hard.

Listen to the prophets of old and connect their ancient poetry to the hopes and fears, injustice and grace of the present day.

People in the Old Testament lived in constant fear of God.

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

Persons who have been hurt in close childhood relationships often feel a painful inner conflict simultaneously pulling them toward intimacy, to get their basic needs met, and away from intimacy, because of the fear of repeating old hurts.

There is indeed a population problem, but it is not one of over-population but of an ageing population (more and more old people, fewer and fewer young) and a people divided against itself, the old fearing the young and the young despising the old.

It can embitter one's pleasure, make life laborious and miserable, make one old and decrepit; but it can not help one to the Good since fear itself has a false conception of the Good — and the Good does not allow itself to be deceived.

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

Certainly I harbour this nagging fear that one group or other of fundamentalists is correct and being trapped between the Scylla of eternal damnation and the Charybdis of a monstrous God of hell - fire, brimstone and Old Testament genocide.

Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.

I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.

How sad that you deny real evidence for a 2000 year old book that has never been updated and can be proven to be false on numerous things... a book written by primitive man to fool the gullible out of money and make them live in fear.

In the days of old men would fall down on their faces in fear (a worshipful fear) when presented with even the name of God.

More importantly, I'd like to see Americans get over their fear of the concept of athiesm and actually acknowledge that a man (or woman) is perfectly capable of being morally sound without having to rely on a 2,000 + year old book for guidance.